Spatio-temporal analysis of rainfall rate for the prediction of slant path fade duration statistics

Author

Panagopoulos, A.D. ; Kanellopoulos, J.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

3

fYear

2001

Firstpage

100

Abstract

A novel engineering method for assessing the dynamic characteristics of rain attenuation on microwave paths using frequencies above 10 GHz is presented. In this analysis a model for spatio-temporal structure of the rainfall rate is introduced. Employing the above model, one can convert the rain-rate duration statistics to slant path fade duration statistics in satellite links. The proposed propagation model is applied on existing experimental results, taken from the literature.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave absorption; microwave propagation; rain; satellite links; statistical analysis; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; 10 GHz; SHF; dynamic characteristics; engineering method; microwave paths; point rainfall rate; propagation model; rain attenuation; rain-rate duration statistics; satellite links; slant path fade duration statistics; spatio-temporal analysis; spatio-temporal structure; Attenuation; Electromagnetics; Frequency; Microwave theory and techniques; Predictive models; Rain; Smoothing methods; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Stochastic processes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2001. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7070-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2001.960041

Filename

960041